Intellectualism about intelligent action maintains that for an action to
be intelligent is for that action to be guided by knowledge of truth
s. In this paper, I develop, motivate and defend a new way of being intelle
ctualistsabout intelligent action: according to it, for an action to
be intelligent is for it to be skilled (for it to manifest the skill
to perform it). However, I contend that having a skill is itself a matter o
f knowing a truth. The view that skills areknowledge of truths has vi
rtually no allies in philosophical quarters. But the most obvious attacks t
o it only target certain ways of developing it. I develop in detail a
new view of the kind of truths skills are knowledge of and arguethat
this view motivates Intellectualism about intelligent action against its m
ain competitor, Neo-Ryleanism. My form of intellectualism vindicates
a knowledge-first approach to the practical domain.